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This book examines the connection between the politics of the Marshall Plan and urban planning and identifies the key players, such as the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis and the Italian industrialist Adriano Olivetti. It also explores the architects of the Mataroa mission, who played a vital role in the cross-fertilisation between France and Greece, and the role of travel to Greece for architects during the 19th century.
This book delves into the work of Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Adriano Olivetti, Alison and Peter Smithson, Iannis Xenakis, Takis Zenetos, Henri Lefebvre, Cornelius Castoriadis, Aris Konstantinidis, Dimitris Pikionis and others. It sheds light on how Doxiadis introduced "ekistics" as a novel approach to understanding the science of human settlements. This book proposes that the manner in which these aforementioned architects and urban planners addressed the role of technology in everyday life and the relationship between society, history, culture, nature, architecture and urban planning could enrich our ongoing methods and debates on architecture, urban planning, ecology, social equity and democracy.
This book is based on extensive archival research and will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers and students and scholars in architecture, architectural history and theory, art, urban sociology, cultural theory, science and technology studies, philosophy, ecology, cybernetics and aesthetics.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: Palpating the Paths of Sentimental Topography and Ekistics
Chapter 2. The Greek Travels of the Villa Medici Pensionnaires in the 19th Century: Perceiving Ancient Monuments between Architecture and Archaeology
Chapter 3. Dimitris Pikionis, Aris Konstantinidis, and Albert Camus: Greece's Entry into Modernity and Mediterranean Humanism
Chapter 4. The Architects of Mataroa, and Cornelius Castoriadis and Henri Lefebvre's Autogestion: Reinventing Polis as Project
Chapter 5. Takis Zenetos's Electronic Urbanism: Social Structures and Reconstruction of Mass Society
Chapter 6. Iannis Xenakis's Formalised Music: Connecting Space, Music, and Mathematics
Chapter 7. Alison and Peter Smithson's Understanding of the Notion of Space in Greek Architecture: The 'As Found' as Topographical Sensitivity
Chapter 8. Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's Role in Politics: Marshall Plan and Urbanism and Housing in Postwar Era
Chapter 9. From the Ministry of Reconstruction to the Dissemination of Ideas through Networks: Urban Networks, Human Settlements and Ekistics
Chapter 10. Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Adriano Olivetti, and the Settlements of Utopia: Industry and Optimism
Chapter 11. Urban Analytics and Technophile Culture in Constantinos Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti's Practices: Towards a Computerised Vision
Chapter 12. Post-script or Towards an Ekistics of Tomorrow: What is the future?
Index
